Teach For India
Working at Teach For India
Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fourteen years into our journey we are a movement of 4600+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~38,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~940 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.
In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.
- Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship
- Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
- Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
- Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
- Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.
Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.
We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We’re committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.
What Teach For India Can Offer You
- The opportunity to be part of one of the most established and visionary movements in the education sector in India which is at a pivotal point in terms of expanding its scale and outreach across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.
- A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee’s Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
- A work environment in which employees’ holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
- Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents.
- Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.
Position Summary
Reporting to: Senior Manager, Strategy & Impact
Team Size: 4 people
As Associate, Strategy & Impact, you will support projects critical to Teach For India both strategically and operationally. You will address challenges that the organization as a whole or any of our 20+ vertical teams and cities are facing. You will work across a diverse portfolio of projects – designing the org-wide survey and analysing the data to bring out key insights for the organisation or for specific verticals, conducting primary research and benchmarking studies, using key insights from data or research to create strategic recommendations for different verticals, putting together reports and presentations, and building the capacity of other teams. You will collaborate with all verticals and cities at TFI across a range of different projects and will be instrumental in building consensus among a diverse range of stakeholders for complex projects. You will also play a key role in maintaining the monitoring and evaluation infrastructure, processes and practices in the organisation to help Teach For India measure progress towards its goals.
On any typical project, the role requires an ability to project manage, balance multiple timelines, generate and analyze data, coordinate and brainstorm with internal and external teams, draw insights and make recommendations.
Team Overview
The Strategy and Impact team is the internal consulting arm at Teach For India - a key thought partner for the CEO, and an advisor and implementation partner for the Vertical Heads and City Directors who lead various teams and constitute the ‘Leadership Team’. It is a team that strives to bring unique and unbiased perspectives into organizational performance by working on a diverse set of projects across multiple functions.
Key responsibilities of the Strategy and Impact Team include supporting the CEO, as well as the Senior Leadership team, on organisational planning and decision-making. The team serves as the primary monitoring and evaluation body for the organisation, as well as a learning partner for our Vertical Heads and City Directors. The work involves collaborating with internal teams on a project-basis- on topics ranging from designing strategy, key-lever analysis, building team capacity, designing monitoring and learning frameworks, implementing performance improvement initiatives, change management, or more. The team also works jointly with the Chief of Staff to the CEO, to conduct periodic structured reviews to enable the Teach For India Board to have a strong, on-going understanding of where we are as an organization and what needs to be done in order to sustain and improve our progress. In essence, the Strategy & Impact team helps Teach For India find the right things to do in service of our mission, and the right ways to do them. Thus, the team is, in many ways, an engine that drives the organization towards its goal of educational equity.
Responsibilities
As an Associate on the Strategy & Impact team
- Supporting the design and execution of multiple projects end-to-end for a variety of projects aimed at organizational development – e.g. quarterly reporting to the Board, Leadership teams and Staff; and research projects with Teach For All and university partners
- Conducting recurring cross-regional surveys for different stakeholders and analysis and dissemination of results– eg. surveys to understand Fellow Engagement, Post-Fellowship plans and clarity, and to gather feedback from School Leaders
- Analyzing datasets to uncover insights – e.g. unpacking trends around Fellow Attrition, Alumni impact data; providing on-demand analytical support to other teams
- Creating compelling documents to communicate progress, insights and recommendations – e.g. presentations to Leadership Team members on insights from Fellow surveys, fortnightly updates to the Senior Leadership Team
- Conducting primary research, literature reviews, and benchmarking exercises to draw from the best practices in strategic planning, monitoring, change management and organizational development.
- Supporting the designing and execution of capacity building workshops for Staff and Leadership Team members
- Engaging in brainstorming sessions with the team to identify problems and hypothesize causes and solutions.
As an Associate at Teach For India
- Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities
- Serving as an ambassador of the Teach For India brand and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply
- Supporting with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building
Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- Bachelor’s Degree from any stream
- 0-2 years of professional work experience
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent working knowledge of Google Sheets and Google Slides or Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Data analysis and interpretation skills
- Strong research capabilities and ability to synthesize research and insights well in written reports or presentations
- Highly organized; operates with high attention to detail
- Ability to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- Experience in management consulting or project management
- Verbal and written communication
- Result-driven and outcome focused-approach
- Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity
Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.
